good afternoon everybody. there was a bit of a scare this morning for students in aurora. leak in columbia middle school. a student called 9news to report what was happening. aurora public schools said that was a precaution to evacuate after receiving a report of a natural gas smell. out. everyone is back inside now. in louisville police are looking for two suspects who tried to steal several different automated teller machines in downtown. yesterday police say the suspects just drove right up to the atms on main street in a dark colored suv and tried to

several locations. the suspects were caught on camera. if you recognize them, any tipsters can contact the northern coloradoel crime stoppers number and those who do have information can remain anonymous and they are eligible for a reward through crime stoppers if an arrest is made. let's talk about the beautiful weather out there. look at that sky. not a cloud up there. we have had so many cloudy days recently, and the weather is pretty nice temperature-wise. danielle is joining us from the backyard. >> kyle, things are looking great. temperatures should be warming up to the 40s, some spots the low 50s. an even bigger warm-up on tap for tomorrow. right now gorgeous no matter where you are. bright blue skies sitting over the downtown denver skyline. the winds just kind of a little breezy out there right no front of the studios making our flags whip around just a bit. temps right now at 42 downtown. 45 longmont. 39 in fort collins.

the wind in the teens as well around the foothills and to the metro area. centennial picking up some occasional gusts 23-24 miles per hour. the real winds across the eastern plains. limon looking at gusts in the 40-mile-per-hour region. it's as this storm system starts to push out of our state and push into parts of the midwest into the deep south. this is a storm system that's going to bring wild weather to parts of the east coast. the rest of us looking good. high level clouds out there. the drive should be a breeze. no wet weather to deal with. tonight mostly clear skies. touching 50s degrees. this evening cooling off to the 30s. again calm, cool today. i am tracking a little bit of snow for the broncos game. i will let you know what time i think it will arrive. >> a little bit of snow? >> just a little. we can handle it. >> we totally can. talking about a lot of snow, the winter weather expected to cause issues in the northeast is causing problems for commuters

jim cantore with the weather channel has this report on the problems there and what could happen in the days ahead i only .07-inch of snow, but look at district. accidents everywhere. 150 of them reported by the police department. with traffic pretty much locked up everywhere, even major inch of snow. this storm is boggles the mind. we have a major ice storm possible for charleston, north carolina. birmingham, atlanta, memphis have a chance of snow as the colder part of the storm moves overhead. then the crippling snowy hev had such a high confidence in talking about over virginia, west virginia, maryland, delaware, southern pennsylvania for the last several days. now it looks like these 20 to 30 plus inch snowfall amounts should actually happen. this will be a blockbuster and

has the potential of shutting back to you. >> thank you so much. the woman accused of stabbing denver's fire chief police arrested marlene rodriguez tuesday after the attack at speer and colfax. chief eric tate is recovering well from being stabbed in the leg and on one of his hands. in fact, he is already back at a collision in the high country could have been so much worse. firefighters. they were in their truck that was hit by a semi truck along i-70 earlier this week. luckily, neither the drivers or the semi driver were hurt. >> semi-tanker came over the top of the pass. the operator and the engineer looked in his rearview mirror and saw it was jack knifing towards them.

end of the engine. >> fire officials want this to serve as a reminder to all of us to not only move over a lane when emergency vehicles are spotted, but also for drivers to slow down around emergency vehicles. a consumer alert for parents of small children. there is a major recall now in effect for brytech strollers. they are recalling 49,000 of them because of a choking hazard. the foamed padding on the arm can come off in pieces if a child were to bite the arm. the strollers were manufactured between april 1st of 2010 and december 31st of 2012. if you have this item, contact them for a replacement. chipolte employees will have a new benefit. the company is giving workers paid sick leave. this is an effort to boost the denver-based food chain food safety program. they will close 1900 restaurants

the afternoon on february 8th for a national meeting. it they are also adding high-resolution dna-based testing of many ingredients and making changes to food prep and handling practices that includes washing and cutting of some produce items like tomatoes and lettuce. the chain sales have tanked since an e.coli outbreak at the end of the october and the problems worsened after a norovirusout break in october. prices are set to go up at netflix, especially for those who want hd. the price for new subscriptions will go up, but some existing members will be grandfathered in at the old rate. but even those people may end up paying more every month because they can either pay their same rate of $7.99 for standard definition, or pay two bucks for high definition. the news comes on the heels of netflix announcing it now has 79 million subscribers.

broncos play the new england patriots afc championship game at sports authority field are really pricey. they are even hotter than the nfc championship game that we played in charlotte. at least when you look at the prices. according to vivid seats, look at this, the median ticket prays to the afc championship game $686. compare that to the cardinals-panthers nfc championship game where it's $450 the median price. so just in time for tax season there are scams out there that could put your hard earned cash in big time jeopardy. weather. not only how great it's going to be the next two days, but what we can except for those going out to the broncos game on sunday.

meteorologist danielle grant in the backyard. bright blue skies. temperatures slowly starting to warm up after a couple of days with lots of snow in the high country. the perfect combination. powder and bluebird skies in the far off distance. this is the view at vail. eagles nest looking good. skiers and snowboarders enjoying 6 inches of fresh powder overnight. fort collins showcasing the csu campus. students running to and from class, probably trying to get out with the beautiful day on our hands. the winds have been a bit pesky. 30-mile-per-hour gusts in berthoud pass, loved pass around 27 in black hawk and things picking up from aurora south to castle rock. at the airport the winds north-northeast 7 miles per hour. temperature readings in the upper 30s.

it feels good in the nine backyard where our temperatures are at 39 this afternoon. the numbers should be warming up to the low 40s. i think 41 at dia. here downtown i wouldn't be surprised to see spots touching 50 degrees. it's going to be warm across southeastern colorado, back to the upper 40s we go. colorado. 24 frisco. a handful of 30s out west. our storm system is gathering more steam. it's bringing the south scattered thunderstorms, possibly severe weather later this afternoon. all eyes out to the pacific northwest where our next wet weather is pulling into the coastline bringing rain showers to seattle. south towards plund with a little bit of light snowfall. this is going to take a couple of days before it moves in the rockies just in time for that broncos game. again the next 24 hours looking good. clouds in nebraska, kansas.

tomorrow 5:00 where you gonna be? it's looking good. dry and quiet conditions towards the first half of the weekend. meanwhile, a completely different story on the eastern seaboard. this storm system ramps up and cruises in across the northeast. the coast lines looking at flooding, blizzard conditions out there towards d.c. look at some of these snow forecast reports from the d.c. area, baltimore, all the way south through roanoke, virginia. 18-24 inches. this storm system is going to be crippling. if you have friends, family that live out there, give them a buzz. 21 tonight. mostly clear skies. winds a little bit quieter than the past couple of days. then the heat is on. 52 tomorrow. mid 50s saturday. a little bit of light snow moving in just in time for the second half of the broncos game. the cooler temperatures and the snow stick with us for the start of next week.

just in time for tax season, the inspector general for the irs is warning all of us taxpayers about a new and costly tax scam. criminals call american taxpayers pretending to be irss agents and demand phony back taxes. at least 5,000 victims have paid $26.5 million to these scam artists. apparently, the scam began by

the u.s. and threatening deportation. it's now mutated and scammers are targeting taxpayers in every demographic group. >> early in the scam the callers had some sort of information about you. they may have four digits of your social security number. now they're just randomly making blanket calls and they have also shifted to also calling cell phones. >> that's why the agency has released five new videos in english and spanish telling people that the irs will not call you out of the blue and threaten to arrest you. the irs says if you get one these calls, just hang up as quickly as you can. the home of bacon fondue french fries. wendy's is testing out a healthier option these days. a new vegetarian black bean burger. and if you order it without the cheese and the ranch sauce, it's completely vegan. wendy's says customers have been asking for a while for a meatless option. we should let you know colorado

we have known for a while that hpv can lead to cervical cancer in women. now researchers are attributing the virus to head and neck cancers as well. this study included 97,000 people who provided mouthwash samples over four years. people were 22 times more likely to develop cancers of the throat, tongue and tonsils than those with no hpv. experts say using the mouthwash samples could be a quick and inextensive way of predicting head and neck cancers. british researchers say they have developed a computer algorithm that could predict a patient's five year risk of coming down with dementia. scientists applied the algorithm to 100,000 patients who have never had any cognitive problems.

between 60 and 79 years old but did not perform as well with older patients. so a huge drop in the markets since we reported on 9news at 11. but still better than what we

how quickly things can change at wall street. at 11 we looked at the markets apt dow was up by 265 points. it went down quite a bit. it's rebound again now. up 90 points. it's been up and down all day today. for those living or looking to buy in northern colorado, larry kindle with the group real estate says in just ten years fort collins housing market will mimic what boulder is today. fort collins single family lots will top $610,000 on average. most new construction will be attached houses. so condominiums and townhomes. the denver housing market a hot

like most of the country, we have experienced the boom, the bust, recovery. last month we discussed why our housing market is not in a bubble. today we are taking a look back at 2015 and looking ahead to '16. rose. >> reporter: let's take a trip back to 2015. when we talk about 2015, there year? >> yeah, 2015 can be characterized simply as this. we really didn't have many homes for people to buy. there wasn't much available for sale. it's kind of like the game of musical chairs. as chairs get pulled away, the remaining chairs are more valuable. and we had more byers in the buying pool fighting for diminishing chairs. when you have not a lot of houses and you have very inexpensive money and a lot of people wanting to buy the house? guess what?

significantly. so we saw historically low levels of availability. interest rates went up a little bit from 3.6 to about 4.1. and in fact this is a great graphic that shows us the number of homes that were available for sale in december going back every year from '05 to '16. we were up into the mid 20,000s. today we are in the 5,000 level. excuse me. that was my fault. and this -- that is what caused this. the interest rate went from 3.6 to 4.1. you might say, hey, that's a rise. but it is still about half of the historical average since 1976. very cheap money, which means a lot of people could be in the buyer pool to drive prices up. the next graphic will show you what happened here. we watched prices in denver go from about 330 up to about 360. >> reporter: wow. >> 11% overall. >> reporter: let's talk about 2016. do you think it's going to stay the same or change? >> you know, that's a great question.

2016, our housing market in the general denver area is going to be exactly the same but different. >> reporter: not confusing at all. explain. >> exactly. here's what we're really going to see. we are going to see the number of homes available for sale will remain low. we'll also see interest rates are going to remain low. they will rise a little, but still historically low. we will see values rise, but not as fast as last year. we have two wildcards. right now we have an election year, 2016. >> reporter: right. >> and a lot at stake. and we also see something called trid. we can talk about that in another something. . transactions are going to take longer than they used to. overall, great market in denver. if you are buying, selling or both, we still remain one of the most desirable places in the world to live. it's gonna be a great year in 2016. >> reporter: we have the graphics and a whole bunch more at 9news.com. all right. look everybody. we got then. the broncos united in orange magnets.

these people were psyched this morning. they got early to get a united in orange magnets. and gregg moss, he is awesome at those things. >> having the best time. >> if it's not gregg out there with the crowds, it's danielle. gregg was in castle rock this morning. danielle is going out this afternoon. at the 4:00 she will be at the king soopers at 104th and washington. they go fast. check out 9news.com for the locations for tomorrow. >> i want to see everyone in their best united in orange gear, too. >> you are orange. your fingernails are orange and blue. >> got the broncos nails going. dress up. come down. it's a hoot. fun to, you know, even though you are standing in line, you meet other fellow die-hard fans. >> yeah, could be fun.

can i get the magnets? >> we are going to have good weather, too. >> look at this. >> today's temperatures okay. we will have mostly sunny skies and then, yeah, we get to sunday and that's when the next storm system moves? i looked at the computer models and tailgating weather just fine. first half okay. second half is when i think we might find a few flurries. the winds are going to kick up a little bit. it will quickly cool off. peyton can handle it. >> totally can. absolutely. have a great day, everybody. we will see you tomorrow.