businesses that were hit, this is a small, locally owned business. and it took a big hit when it was burglarized just a few days before christmas. and since then, police said they've seen quite an increase in burglaries. and now they're thinking they could be connected. [ horns honking ] >> i guess you kind of go, these things happen. >> reporter: business burglaries happen. but this isn't the way margaret moore was hoping to bring in the new year. >> well, we're a small, local business. i think anything -- anything, no matter how small it is -- taken from you can be important. >> reporter: this suspect broke into inga's alpine lounge a few days before christmas. he's caught on surveillance video stealing hundreds of dollars of alcohol after not finding any money. >> he was in here almost an hour, they said. so, yeah. >> reporter: denver police think he may be the same guy who smashed his way into businesses along the one-mile stretch of hampton avenue this week. other stores were hit on the

he broke into all types of places from a wig shop to chain restaurants looking for cash. >> it feels creepier knowing he was up and down the block or could have been in here drinking and socializing and -- i don't know, casing the place. >> as investigators look for the suspect, margaret says you have to leave what happened last year behind. she's looking forward to another hopefully crime-free year of business. >> we're moving on. 2016 will be a great year. >> reporter: it's unclear how much was stolen from those other businesses. obviously this is in the initial stages of an investigation, mark, which is why investigators are asking anyone with information give crimestoppers a call. >> we hope certainly they catch him. thank you very much. jessica oh along there. a strip club called pt's caught fire near colfax and yosemite street. they believe the fire started on the corner of the building on the administrative side, not the club side. no one was inside the building

the cause of the blaze has not been released. but the denver fire department is saying the damage is mostly smoke-related. police are looking for a man who shot another man leaving a night club shortly after the new year began in denver. police got a call about the shooting this morning around 1:30 near the intersection of lincoln and 12th. vet toes say the victim was leaving the church night club and got into a fight with someone in the parking lot. the other man shot him in the torso and took off. the victim is in critical condition. >> we had a suspect description of a hispanic male wearing a gray shirt fleeing the area. at present, that's the only suspect description we have. >> if you were there last night and saw anything, you're asked to contact denver police. ready, set, dive! for thrill seekers, evergreen lake was the place to kick off the new year today. hundreds of brave swimmers eagerly awaited their chance to jump into the water barely above freezing. for many, it's a holiday tradition.

the new year off with a spectacular amount of courage like that. four troopers from the colorado state patrol to first test the water in full uniform taking their plunge for safety to raise awareness, they say. >> we do it every year! >> it was a surprise. it was remarkably hard to breathe at first. but then after you got used to the water, you know, it was -- it was pretty exhilarating. it was pretty exciting. >> the warmth from the firefighters brought instant comfort, though! [ laughter ] >> firefighters were on hand to get the swimmers out of the freezing water. a large portion of the fundraised money will go to the evergreen special needs program. good for all of them. and early january along the front range finally with no chance of snow for several days now. even for the high country. high temperatures in denver today reached above the freezing mark for thes very first time in a week. it's been plain miserable. and this is just the beginning

weekend and early next week. danielle grant is joining us. danielle, maybe the only complaint would be poor air quality at times. but thankfully, i'm willing to make the trade. [ laughter ] >> i am, too, mark! it's been days since we've been dealing with teens and 20s for highs! it's been since christmas we hit 35 degrees. eastern colorado warming up quite a bit. in fact, from this time to yesterday, a good 10 to 15 degrees warmer than we were for a lot of folks. 27 in denver. same in fort collins. we were at 8 below in kremmling. 8 below in meeker. a cold one across colorado. we had a bit of a haze, a brown cloud early this morning but a bit of wind out there. that should help us out through the weekend. hd doppler 9, nice and dry. this is how it'll stay overnight and into tomorrow. in fact, i'll put the futurecast in motion. you won't see a lot of change. by 8:00, a couple high clouds toward i-70. not quite as chilly overnight.

continue to slowly climb upwards as well. and should be mild for our fist weekend of 2016. and when in the world will we see snow around here? mark, looks like it'll be a while before we see the flakes falling around denver. >> i'll say this, we've had plenty for a while. so we can take a break! >> we have! and feel the sunshine! >> which you could feel today for the first time in days! thanks again. >> uh-huh. a gunman killed two and injured others in tel tel-aviv. the motive is unclear at this point. a manhunt is underway for the perpetrator. they say the shooter waited outside a on a bench before firing an automatic gun. in the aftermath, police and other security officers could be seen running through the site of the attack as medics tended to those wounded. this is not the first, though. israel has seen a wave of street attacks since october. the government of dubai says efforts to cool down the scene of last night's massive

continued today. flames engulfed the 63-story hotel even as crowds gathered for the fireworks display. 14 minor injuries were reported during the evacuation of the hotel. >> we were really shocked because it was burning right up the building all the way. fireworks were going to be going. and the lights were turned off. so we went back to the flat. we were scared. there were explosions. and we didn't know what was happening. >> small fires can still be seen burning through some windows. authorities say they're still working to determine the exact cause of this fire. the building would have a prime stop for viewing -- would have been a prime stop for viewing the midnight fireworks display. it had more than 200 rooms and 600 residential units. in munich, police evacuated two train stations, citing from

one was for munich's train station and another site in the city. they warned people not to gather in public. some 550 policemen were on duty. earlier this morning, the railway stations were reopened. there's still a terror alert in effect in munich. >> the spokeswoman for the family of a who died in anchorage, alaska, says the plane crash was a suicide. they say there was no reason to think he was trying to harm anyone but himself. demrest was flying tuesday when he clipped a building where his wife worked at a law firm and crashed into an unoccupied commercial building. he died in the scene. they say he was not authorized to fly the airplane. hundreds of thousands of spectators haven't left chilly temperatures or security -- -- haven't let chilly temperatures

from gathered in pasadena today. the dozens of bright floats made their way along the parade route. one massive disney float featured a "star wars" theme with storm troopers on one end. characters from the hit movie "frozen" were on the other end. look at this. the buffalo area was under a today. up to a foot of snow expected in some areas. this is ham beggar just south of buffalo -- hamberg just south of buffalo. gusts up to 35 miles per hour have reduced visibility and conditions. there are reports of accidents and cars literally sliding off the roads. grammy award winning singer natalie coal has died at the -- cole has died at the age of 65. singer gnat king cole died sunday. she battled health issues, including hepatitis c and an

heroine, resulting from a kidney transplant in. she was remembered for "unforgettable love," a tribute to her father. and new threats in the new year. >> and why today's arguably the best day of the year to buy a vehicle. >> and what researchers discovered about a group of people asked to eat unhealthy

if you throw a big party, someone's got to clean it up! shortly after the clock struck

city. and the massive cleanup began. crews were still in time square cleaning the confetti on the streets. in addition to the confetti, people left party hats, noisemakers, all that stuff. authorities say 178 sanitation workers with 26 mechanical sweepers and 25 collection trucks had the streets cleared by about 7:00 this morning. [ whirring noise ] >> last year, crews picked up more than 48 tons of debris. >> wow! the new year brings new cyber threats which may be right at your fingerprints. cellphones present the biggest risk category this year, according to cyber security fortnet. the shared number of youths makes them targets. the new year will bring new viruses as well, including the first headless worms which is malicious code targeting things like smartwatches and medical hardware. a lot of consumers have

and a lot of autodealers will tell you today's date is a driving force for auto sales. new year's day means an average of almost 90% off sticker prices of new vehicles. that's from truecar.com. the deep discount is due to auto makers counting today as part of a long weekend and throwing in end of the year incentives. nearly 8% on saturday and a little more than 7% on sunday. but it's a good time to buy a new one if that's when you're looking for. could the secret to healthier eating be a mirror? they asked adults to choose chocolate cake or salad to eat in front of a mirror. they say seeing ourselves eating unhealthy foods can make us feel uncomfortable, even if

that was led by the university of central florida and published in the journalism of consumer research. you think i could be happy eating cake in front of a mirror or not. [ laughter ] >> doesn't matter. i'm eating cake. >> i'm just going to eat it over here. >> i may be happier watching me eat it knowing i'm eating this wonderful cake. >> amazing! being study. >> yeah! [ laughter ] and streets along the front range are beginning to thaw a bit. >> what a couple days we've had! how warm it'll get before another cooldown comes in. next in danielle's forecast. >> we need to find you cake. [ laughter ] coming up on "nightly news," a manhunt in israel looking for a terrorist accused of opening fire on a crowded sidewalk, killing two. >> camille cosby, wife of bill cosby, being forced to testify in a case against him next

why the accuser's attorney is so anxious to hear from her. >> and we're looking back at the politics of 2015 and the life of natalie cole, an

you know, it's a new year, january 1st. i was one of those people who wanted to get out, start the exercise regiment.

i said, it won't be that bad. wrong! it was freezing! it was freezing! [ laughter ] >> and i know! it was supposed to be one of the warmer days! believe it or not. but still a lot of sunshine out there. and the glowing sunlight over phenomenal. this has been the tone all day nice, quiet. and like i said, the temperatures just warming up a few degrees above the freezing mark made it better than the deep freeze we were stuck in all last week. downtown denver looks pretty good tonight as we have clear skies. looking ahead towards january, our averages, where we typically end up, averages near 30 degrees. rain, precipitation, 4/10. and we usually pick up 7 inches of snow. we'll see how it fares. 35 in denver. cooler in greeley. made nit pueblo. 24 in deadville. and 20s further across the western slope. right now, 27. look at the winds. not that bad. coming out of the south about 6 miles-per-hour. we can handle that.

be relatively nice, not quite as biting as outside the past week. and and it's because of the jet stream. shifted just a bit. it's bringing that pocket of colder air into the the great lakes and new england. that will bring us the milder temperatures over the weekend and into the start of next week. i think you're going to like what you see. looking ahead toward what we have going on across the country right now, really quiet. that ridge bringing us some dry weather across most the west. a subtropical jet, though, a little more active. bringing the rain showers to texas, the gulf coast, and even eastern seaboard, an area that doesn't need to see anymore wet weather. and out there into parts of new york, picking up on big time winter weather. getting the lake-effect snow and moving all the way towards boston. they're finally dealing with the bitter cold temperatures and the wet weather. around here, it's been quiet. hd doppler 9 looking really nice. and as we look through the rest of tonight and tomorrow morning, nothing really changes. tomorrow morning, we'll wake up 8:00, 9:00.

if you're driving i-70, going to take some turns for the first of the year in the mountains, i'd say the weather shouldn't be an issue, as far as the roads are concerned. and even driving back, should be a breeze. few high level clouds here and there. but overall, a nice, nice start to our weekend and start to the new year. we'll be at 9 below in greeley overnight. i know still some areas along the south platte river valley and higher mountain valleys, still sub zero overnight. in the teens in the metro area with the mostly clear skies. winds out of the west, southwest at 10 miles per hour. no biggie there. and looking ahead toward tomorrow, a good 10 degrees warmer. in the city, 43. citying in the 40s for most of eastern colorado. in the mountains, enjoying the bluebird skies and warmer numbers as well. 46 in black hawk. 46 in littleton with upper 30s in platteville. eaten at 39. 35 in lyons. hazy this weekend but not too bad. loads of sunshine out there for the start of next week.

for this time of the year. close to 50 on tuesday. going to feel like a heat wave. and then finally tracking the next system pushing in on thursday, friday, and saturday. kind of a slow mover, so to speak. could bring us a little snow fall to the metro area and possibly cooler temperatures to just back down to the freezing mark. of course, big game day coming at us on sunday. broncos as they take on the chargers. we'll have plenty of sunshine out there. 2:30 for kickoff. the temperatures for january couldn't be much better. mid-40s then. hopefully the boys are coming off with a big win. we'll be down to the mid-30s. so we're lucky. >> oh, yes, absolutely. >> it's about time! >> and that will be near south beach for us. >> absolutely! >> feeling like south beach around here! [ laughter ] >> flip flops, shorts, yeah, we'll need all that by tuesday. [ laughter ] >> thanks, danielle. we're nine-point favorites against the chargers. >> oh!

time against the chargers on sunday.

from colorado sports leaders leaders. >> the new year resolution is for a first by in the playoff and a win on sunday will get them there. the broncos rene short week with their monday night win over cincinnati. and, yes, the chargers are 4- 11. but they haven't played since last thursday. so one on a rest and the other on an extended break. >> i think we have a tough task for the weekend. a tough game. last game of the year. anything goes type of deal. i think we all understand that. but we have rallied back, you know. yesterday we were a little slower. i think i said that to y'all. but we practiced good yesterday. we had a lot of energy today. >> we'll see how much action veteran wide receiver jordan norwood sees on sunday.

catches against the bengals. and norwood is enjoying being more involved, as we find out. >> jordan was worried about you there for a little while. you disappeared on us a couple months mid-season. now you're back. two big games back-to-back coming this week. what was it? the offense of adjustment? the offense evolving? making extra plays? >> i think it's evolving. we have a lot of receivers making plays, you know, finding the right combination. >> reporter: you have, if nothing else, learned how to persevere. you've been waived, come from injuries. how difficult was it this year, you know, when you were inactive for a couple games to hang in there. . >> i mean, yeah, that brings on its own frustrations. i mean, last year was hurt the entire season. it had its own frustrations, too. you have to take these moment by moment and day by day. and, you know, take each day

>> you know, between your stature and your boyish face, you know, -- [ laughter ] >> -- you've always looked like a high school point guard to me. >> that's fine! [ laughter ] >> reporter: then i looked it up. and you were quite the high school point guard. julius thomas has nothing on you. you played basketball for penn state. what led you to make the switch to football? >> i have more of an opportunity to play football. i could have played at bucknell to play basketball, a small school in pennsylvania. >> reporter: yeah. >> but my dad being my coach and being in my life forever, i have passion for the sport. >> reporter: the colorado state junior will likely skip his final season and head to the nfl. whenever he does leave, he'll do so as the greatest wide receiver in school history. he has the record for touchdown receptions at csu and after his performance in the arizona

record for career yardage. 3,649 yards. he broke derrick anderson's old mark of 3,034. >> coming to csu, you never would imagine, man, i'd even be close to his record. so it's a huge accomplishment that i set out for. and, um, i'm glad i got it. >> bowl games are great and all, but my favorite part is the nhl hockey classic. bitter rivals montreal and boston meeting up in tom brady's house. and this one was all canadian! they scored very early in the game and never stopped. a beauty on the break. montreal beat boston 5-1. and, of course, not too long from now we'll see coors field transformed into a hockey rink. >> uh-huh.

the 20th and the avalanche and redwings on february 27th. >> what do you think about sunday in san diego? i mean, they're home, weather will be better. >> i think they would take care of business. >> think! >> yeah. get that first round by. >> that would be very special. >> all right, fine. blow them out. [ laughter ] >> that's better! >> fine! >> confidence. i like it. [ laughter ] >> kill'em. >> we'll see you back at 6:00.