winter is making a come back this week. snow and much cooler temperatures, are in the forecast. >> a spike in crime in every denver neighborhood last year. the police chief's plan to make the city safer. >> plus. >> just driving around, finding people and shooting them dead. >> the latest on the shooting spree in michigan, after 8 people were shot at random. >> we hear from denver's martin

finish in the history of the daytona 500. >> you can see the moon tonight, maiden very look more -- made denver look more beautiful. it's hard to believe we have snow in the forecast, but we do. danielle, the start of the workweek will feel much cooler than what we've seen recently. >> a burst of reality, and reminder that winter is still around here. we've been above average for the past two weeks, and things bulk more seasonable. -- becoming more seasonable. out to the pacific northwest, next storm system is gaining momentum, and that will push afternoon. we were looking at temperatures in the 20s in longmont, mid-to upper 30s to downtown denver. springs. did you notice the winds? they were a little more quiet, nice to see about, 5-10 miles per hour right now.

should be dry, a storm system doesn't pick up until about midday. area. temperatures in the mid- to upper 40s. and cool things off as that moisture reaches the metro area. i'm thinking right now a little bit of rain for the drive home, and then everybody switches to know later on tomorrow night. so we go from springtime, to winter just like that. how much snow will we see? i'll let you know who i think is going to have the most am of snow out of all of this, and it looks like we'll have another warm up on our hands. will we see the 60 and 71-degree temperatures we've had? i'll let you know. snow. >> a little break. 12 people were taken to the hospital this afternoon, after a three-car crash in aurora. two of the people involved are critically injuries. the crash happened after hampden.

wearing a seat belt, and was ejected. the other person who was critically hurt is a child. aurora police say that child also was not wearing a seat belt. >> we had a fatal crash in january, where a 10-year-old girl was unrestrained and probably would be survived if she had her belt on. we see a lot of heartache. >> police are interviewing witnesses to determine exactly how the crash happened. tonight, we've learned a man was taken into custody after police found a woman dead at an apartment north of downtown. denver police say the woman was found just after 12:30 at an apartment complex on park avenue west, not far from i-25 north of the ballpark neighborhood. police have not identified the victim or the suspect and it's not clear if they knew each other. investigators are not saying how the woman died.

i-70 in glenwood canyon after a rock slide last monday damaged the road. overnight, to tomorrow, drivers will be let through the canyon by a pilot car westbound and alternate. the road will close completely again from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. tomorrow so crews can continue repair work. at 4:00 p.m., the pilot car service will begin again. fully repairing the highway is to cost between 2 million and $5 million, a price tag that has c-dot considering a federal disaster declaration. denver police are scrambling to make the city safer than last year. in 2015, crime rose in every neighborhood. homicides hit a 10 year high. whitney wild spoke with the denver police chief to find out why, and what he plans to do about it. >> reporter: in the denver home, the family bought in 1960, she

son in a safer city than the one she saw last year. >> i just wish people would have appreciation for life. >> reporter: a wish she never knew she -- >> like the normal areas i would run into. >> reporter: until her aunt was murdered december 2. >> i feel that anybody could come in and take someone's life. >> reporter: the death, the 51st in 2015, pushed denver's murder rate to a ten year high. that's perhaps the most startling, but it's not the only example of the crime wave that rolled through every neighborhood in denver. crooks broke into 1059 more cars, committed 321 more aggravated assaults, and burglarized 231 more homes than in 2014. >> police officers brought me back to my bathroom. >> reporter: thieves targeted

>> i think they put a desk chair, and kicked in the window. >> reporter: it happened around 2:30 p.m. >> we live on a street where a lot of people work from home, people are out walking their dogs, there's a lot of activity, so i never thought someone would have the gall, or the will to break in. >> reporter: we asked the top on. >> we have a lot of work to do. i clearly understand you can't fix a problem unless you can identify it. >> reporter: white says 23 of the murders in 2015 involved gangs. usually dpd sees about a dozen gang homicides all year. beyond that, he says, there's rarely a single force pushing up crime city wide. >> i just think it's a litany of reasons why crimes occur. >> reporter: dpd is working on three ways to end the trend. cops are moving to a new school that will put up to 40 more

the goal is to have them spend up to 35% of the shift dedicated to crime reduction strategies in specific areas. but, he says, it starts with building trust. >> we just, people are more inclined to work with us if they know us, we treat them with dignity and respect, and if they have a voice as relates to the things that are back impacting their lives. >> reporter: gaddis hopes to inspire compassion, which might be the best crime-fighting tool of all. >> all the families out there, deal with a lot of hurt, and anger, and all kinds of emotions behind what someone did. >> denver is not alone, the fbi says in the first half of 2015, violent crime rose nationwide. there are other categories that we didn't show that went up. we have more information on our website, with more details about crime in your neighborhood. >> whitney, that's an incredible number of murders.

solved by denver police? >> reporter: about half remained unsolved! 50%, okay, thank you so much. whitney wild. a vigil was held at westminster city park to remember the man killed after crashing into a police cruiser along federal and 88th avenue. traffic wood died in the crash early thursday morning. he was an army veteran and father. his fiancee said they were planning a july 4 wedding and just welcomed a baby boy two months ago. >> i want them to know that my husband -- he's strong, and loving and caring. he'll never get to know his daddy.

kalamazoo, michigan, came together to pray for the 6 people killed and two injured that appeared to be a random shooting spree last night. it all began in the parking lot of an apartment complex around 6:00 p.m. yesterday. police say a 45-year-old uber driver named jayson dalton shot a mother who was with her three kids. sheer is in serious condition. then he went to a car dealership and shot and killed and father and his 18-year-old son. >> it's like, somebody just driving around, finding people and shooting them dead in their tracks. >> 15 minutes later, five people were shot in their cars outside a cracker barrel restaurant. four women in their 60s, and 70s were killed. a 14-year-old girl who was with them was presumed dead, but when doctors were preparing to harvest her organs, she squeezed her mother's hand and rushed into surgery. police are searching dalton's home to figure out why he may have shot so many people at random. dalton appeared to have a normal

wife and two children, ages 15 and 10. >> it's not relevant just in school. relevant in church, and movie theaters, everywhere these shootings are happening around the country. >> not every school in colorado trains for an active shooter. asking what schools are doing to keep your kids safe. the answers we received surprised the department of education, and a legislator working on school security issues. i just believe this is important. i didn't think it was important until it happened to me. >> reporter: david, a former math teacher and deer creek middle school ran towards gunfire at his school, tackled

was in february of 2010. by the tike the attack -- time the attack happened, the school had been trained to do. if. >> and they said what if somebody comes in the room? i would say, you know, i would hope that i would be able to do something. you guys go out that door. and they said, well, what are you going to do? i don't know, throw desks i guess. >> reporter: schools training has evolved. it's not all about getting to safety, it's talking to students after. >> what kind of questions you guys have? >> reporter: going through what they could do better, explaining why this is important. >> i'm so impressed. >> reporter: john is in charge of safety at jeffco, the district that survived columbine, and deer creek. >> you have the conversation what do you do when you're on fire. we better have a conversation when you're under fire.

it's not going away. >> reporter: nine want to know asked all 178 school districts in colorado, what they do to train for an active shooter. we sent letters and then followed up, asking questions for months. we phoned the level of training varied greatly often impacted by turn over, access to experts, and sometimes simply knowing who to ask. some telling us they've never trained and don't know how. >> we need to be in class. and to incorporate 300 kids over the course of a day and with the resources that we have, that we have to involve, it's going to take a lot of preparation and a lot of thought in order to get that done. >> reporter: we took the findings to the colorado department of education and asked. >> reporter: monday and tuesday,

while everybody agrees school safety is a priority, nobody is checking what each individual school district is doing to train staff and students. and what about the legislature? how serious are they when it comes to school safety in colorado? bill clinton was in colorado springs today to campaign for his wife hillary. more than 1000 people attended the events at colorado college. clinton spoke of hillary's desire to main community college free, and implement more business insensitive to get jobs. last night, hillary clinton slowed bernie sanders momentum with her win in nevada. she won the state with 53%, sanders not too far behind at 47%. clinton and sanders will square off next saturday in south

the gop presidential hopefuls are focused on nevada. last night, trump got a big show of support in south carolina, winning that primary with 33% of the vote. marco rubio took a distant second with 23%, even after he scored a major endorsement from south carolina governor niki haley. ted cruz finished third with 22%. a basketball coach at a colorado high school is facing a bigger battle off the court. how his team has stepped up to rally around him. >> winter is making a come-back in colorado. how much snowfall stacks up in my forecast,.

team them about life. leroy velasquez is one of those coaches in the story tellers, we are introduced to the hoe rice on hawks, and coach v. the man they've been fighting for all season. >> reporter: the thing about being on a team, you're never alone. lean on. to stand with. to fight for. chad wilson has been head coach of the boys varsity basketball team at thornton's horizon high school for five years. this year, his team is young. >> doesn't matter how hard you get hit. >> reporter: moving forward, not just for themselves. >> you can tell something is missing? but for a team member who let a hole on the bench. >> you don't see him there -- >> i don't feel like i can do enough for coach "v."

there in the middle. >> i think we have a trust, a bond. >> reporter: he's the assistant varsity coach. >> we've been coaching 25 years together, my right-handyman, whatever it is, just the ability to finish this -- >> it's bun such a luxury. >> i know what the next words are going to be. >> reporter: but coach wilson and the team couldn't find the words when coach v told them this. >> i have advanced renal failure. >> we figured it would be easy, get fixed. >> reporter: at first he came to practice and games. >> a great thing. >> reporter: but now it's different. >> i wish we could get him up here, and get to a practice, come watch a game. >> this was a big rivalry game

>> i was the big defensive guru. >> reporter: now he watching interest a different sidelines. >> never hesitates to tell moo, why aren't you doing this, doing that. and lot of times, it's like well, i don't teach it as well as you do. >> we coached together, try to keep kids not to quit, which i'm not doing. >> let's do our part, and honor him by the way we play,. >> reporter: v-strong. their bond with coach-v is strong. he was a student here once. >> i had more hair back then. >> i'm currently drawing the v-strong symbol. >> we're just going to try to raise money to help with his granddaughter's college fund. >> we all have his back.

for coach-v. >> we have his family here. so if we could please give his family a big hand for letting us do this for him. >> not a day goes by we don't miss coach v in the gym. we feel his spirit though. >> community coming together to support him. >> reporter: for coach wilson, it's hard to be on the court without his friend. but the thing about being a team is you always have someone to lean on. to stand with. to fight for. >> i don't think i'll ever coach without him. he's here even when he's not. >> coach v was actually able to make if to a game a few weeks ago. the hawks won that night.

we salute coach-v and that team. the moon tonight, spectacular! and cold all of a sudden. >> yeah. >> and going to get colder? >> yeah, let's check in with danielle. we've been spoiled with some pretty warm temperatures. >> i had to bust out the coat! i know a lot of people were wearing shorts, t-shirts, 60s, 70s. now is the time, find a jacket, winter is returning to colorado in full force as we go towards tomorrow evening into tuesday. today, gorgeous, and we have a waxing goodness on our hands. just some stunning views. a great day, but a cooler day. 46 degrees at dia, mid-50s in fort collins and greeley, and some spots in the 50s along the eastern plains, and mild across the high country. yet again. 33 degrees at the airport, partly cloudy skies, winds from the south, 11 miles an hour.

winds quieting down a bit for us. our temperature readings, about 34 degrees, a nice, quiet evening, but changes are in the air. you can get an idea of what to expect as this winter season is finally returning to the state. storm system pushing in tomorrow evening. i'm thinking a little rain for the evening commute home, so driving home from work or school, you might find a couple raindrops on the windshield. and tuesday, everything switched out. most of the moisture in the mountains, possibly up to a foot for some places and then around the metro area, about 2-5 inches, i'll break that down more specific in a second. traveling, it's going to be tricky, too, especially heading up i-70. the worst will be late monday into tuesday. it's all coming out from the pacific northwest. it's a swift-moving storm, so it will brush right on by and pick

in the texas panhandle, more moisture down there across the gulf of mexico, and then shoots off across the eastern seaboard. this glancing glow for us, as we have winter weather advisories from the northern, central, and southern mountains. over all, about 4-8 inches, but around winter park, south to breck, a-basin, 6 to 12 inches possibly. we do have a winter advisory watch out. tonight, mostly clear skies, tomorrow morning, wake up some clouds to the west of town, 8:00, the storm isn't with us just yet. it takes a while to materialize. snow in the northern and central mountains, increasing clouds and winds and for the drive, a little light rain, and 10-1, the snowfall makes it way to the i-25 corridor, as temperatures cool off, and that's whether we

i think this events starts off with rain, and for the pass two weeks, we've had above average temperatures, so the pavement is pretty warm. that's why i'm thinking 1-3-inches, especially east of i-25. northern colorado, less than 2 inches for you folks. areas south and west, up to golden, ken caryl, castle rock, 2-5 inches for you, and foot hits and high country a better shot at seeing accumulating snow. not too bad, cooling to the 20s. teens in the mountains, in town, cool, quiet and calm. a nice change of pace, and tomorrow, another seasonal kind of day, and a good chunk of the day stays relatively dies. low 60s in lamar, but cool as this storm system starts to roll in across northwestern colorado. northern colorado, similar set up, clouds increasing, winds will be back and forth, especially on tuesday.

gusty day. 1-3 inches, if you have, say, 8:00 meeting on tuesday, i'd said the alarm a little early. that commute is going to be a little tricky and treacherous as well. and storm system moves right on out. back in business with more sunshine. temperatures running above average. we might even be talking about

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sports cast with a super bowl. the broncos won the nfl versus on february 7, and martin truex, junior, almost completed a sweep the daytona 500 is known as the super bowl of racing. and truex was just inches away from winning it. things were interesting at the end. mat kenseth had the lead, and lost it when hamlin made a move, which opened the door for the 78 car. back and forth, it looked like true he is had it won, but -- truex had it one, but got ended out. denny hamlin, the 2016 daytona 500 chapel. truex second by .01 of a second. >> i felt like i had enough momentum to keep him behind me, which i did until the last couple feet, and he just shot out, you know, the last couple