there, pretty typical for this time of year. bailey, evergreen 5 to 6. , 2 inches in greeley and sterling -- 6 inches, 2 inches in greeley and sterling. our storm system packed its bags fairly quickly and is now moving out across the northern plains producing some snowfall in parts of minneapolis and then that line of strong to severe thunderstorms rolling throughout parts of the tennessee valley. around colorado what you see is what you get, a clear sky kind of night and that means ou right now some spots in the 20s like estes park, nederland, idaho springs. we're holding onto the freezing mark in broomfield, aurora 31, but tone once the sun completely goes down -- tonight once the sun completely goes down it will be cold out there. if you're heading out to any of the high school games going on, not only will you need the blanket, a good jacket and probably hot cocoa, too. coming up we'll go over the weekend forecast and a look beyond towards the thanksgiving

warmers handy, amazing it was just so warm the other day. >> 80 degrees. >> thank you. two men from alabama who pleaded guilty to starting the cold springs fire near nederland back in july will have to work for two years, spend their time off in jail and pay restitution that could reach more than $1 million. the fire destroyed eight home. a judge in boulder today sentenced 20-year-old jimmy suggs and 26-year-old ryan ku fire by not making sure their campfire was completely put out. they will also spend four years on probation. president-elect donald trump today revealed three important picks for his white house team. two are members already of his inner circle. former lieutenant general michael flynn was chosen as national security advisor and senator jeff sessions as attorney general. flynn has been tagged by critics as an anti-muslim hardliner. the congressional black caucus

remarks cost him a federal judgeship decades ago. however, both picks are getting good reviews from fellow republicans. >> i'm offering my congratulations to jeff sessions who will make an extraordinary attorney general. >> president-elect trump revealed kansas congressman mike pompao is his pick for cia director. all picks today leave little shift to the right in national u.s. security policy. we are airing a special edition of next. we've invited viewers to talk about the election, meet people from the other side who voted differently than they did and talk out their differences. we've heard from a lot of people, so we are airing an hour long let's just talk special with voters from across colorado and across the political spectrum. we'll talk about what a trump presidency means to them from

6:30 and then the rest on 9news.com. residents from an oklahoma town hit by an earthquake filed a class action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies. a 5.8 magnitude quake struck pawnee in september. the companies operate wastewater injection weapons even though they know that method of disposing oklahoma has had thousands of effort quakes in recent years. nearly all have been linked to the practice of injecting waste wart from oil and gas production back underground -- wastewater from oil and gas production back underground. last year weather postponed a launch for a weather satellite, , but it's set to head to space tomorrow and a special colorado instrument on

>> reporter: consider the biggest weather upgrade in technology in decades that will finally get a chance to prove itself in space. >> the first time in four years we're introducing a whole new introduction to new technology end to end. >> reporter: that means a clearer sense of what the weather will do as it unfolds, a lightning mapper will snap an image 200 times per second, but beyond weather on earth the satellite will look at weather in space. >> space weather is all >> reporter: to better be able to predict that, the laboratory for atmospheric and space physics at cu boulder built an instrument on board commissioned by noaa, a $100 million project in the university in development nearly 20 years. >> it's about the size of a microwave. it looks at the sun continuously with about three separate cadence to look for

it shows how big they are and if they night arrive to earth. >> reporter: that's important because they can be highly disruptive knocking out technologies we've come to rely on. >> it can affect the power grid on the ground. it can affect communications with airlines. it can affect even gps. >> reporter: giving gozar the ability to see storms coming from beyond the earth so that we can all weather them on earth, maya rodriguez, 9news. >> lockheed martin gozar satellite here in colorado set to launch from centennial base launch alliance at 3:42 mountain time from cape canaveral. we heard from a lot of you about the struggle reported on recently in park county. >> freedom! you can't take it from me! >> that is steve bedigeon and this is the hole he lives in. he dug it into a 6-acre parcel he owns in south park.

with, people camping on land zoned for single family homes. concerned that campers are an eyesore and dumping human waste on their parcels, the county passed tougher rules this summer and sent warning letters to 160 people living off the grid. county commissioners decided to give folks the end of this month before they step up enforcement. >> we don't want people in south park camping through the winter because risky because they do have problems out there. if someone calls and says i'm having a heart attack, what's your address? i don't know. i'm camping. >> i don't need mommy and daddy government to tell me how to protect myself and their usage of that claim that they're moving us off because we can't take care of ourselves here is a lie. >> a lot of you told us you think the county ought to let folks like steve be, but we also heard from others who say

get up to speed on the issue by watching or reading our entire story up now for you on 9news.com. researchers say they've found concerning patterns on cancer rates near rocky flats. nearly half of the 1,700 people surveyed so far reported having cancer. metro state along with other universities released their findings today to the public. experts told 9news reporter jessica oh what else alarming. >> it is alarming to me the preliminary results. >> reporter: in a packed room with people out the door, results all too familiar with the controversial rocky flats plant learned how it could be impacting their health in the first real study of its kind. >> it's the first time we've actually had community members reporting on their own health issues. >> reporter: the team surveyed over 1,700 people since may. >> it's an unusual finding. >> reporter: what she learned

for decades. >> i've been a nurse for 37 years and didn't recognize the names of all these different cancers. >> reporter: nearly half the number of people surveyed reported having cancer. >> 48.8%, almost half, are rare cancers. that's unusual, too. >> reporter: in the u.s. just 25% of the population has one of those rare cancers. >> my father was 56 and he was diagnosed with a very, very rare cancer that there was only a few cases battle to cardiac angiosarcoma. another boy in the neighborhood had it, too. >> the chances of having this rare cancer in one neighborhood when there's only a handful of cases in the u.s. was too coincidental. >> reporter: but not concrete. this study is specifically for people who lived within a 10- mile radius of rocky flats when it was active from 1952 to 1992. jensen says that makes it very difficult to test.

population. this is too large of time frame. >> reporter: the concern is what's next now that this area 15 miles northwest of denver is seeing a housing boom. >> they're building brand-new homes right up next to rocky flats and a lot of my friends have built up there. >> reporter: welcoming a new wave of residents to a former nuclear site. even though the plant stopped operating 15 years ac, it's still a concern for newcomers to the neighborhood, the decades struggle soon. >> there's people with health issues and people very upset about this study. >> reporter: jessica oh, 9news. >> metro state says the next phase of their study will look into other illnesses. this one focused on cancer. you can find msu's health survey now on 9news.com. bagged salads are usually convenient, but a new study suggests they can also be dangerous. >> also ahead rtd admits defeat in its mission to open two more

>> and the mess in northern california that need to be cleaned up because of a

workers in a manufacturing plant up in northern california today were soaking in more than sun. police say a bunch of foam spilled in the santa clara business. officials say it services jet engines and you can see people actually in the foam. they say the building's fire suppression system had a malfunction. it spewed foam throughout the entire place and all around that business.

fire and thankfully the foam is not dangerous. it's just really fun to look at. no injuries were reported and it's unclear what prompted the system to accidentally activate. back at home rtd admits to our partners at the denver business journal that the district's g line to arvada and wheat ridge as well as the r line through aurora will not open as planned this year. the g line was scheduled to open this fall as the third piece of the commuter rail system which includes the a line going line to westminster. the federal railroad administration said it won't allow testing on the g line until software problems get fixed on the a and b lines that are up and running. the r line is a light rail project, not the same kind of rail as the commuter lines. that goes through aurora between parker road and i-70. now it's unclear what the delays were on that one. bagged salads are convenient, but a new study suggests they're more likely to harbor and grow salmonella.

leaves fresh and crisp. researchers in the acorea created the -- in the uk recreated the bagged salad environment and found the moisture created the perfect breeding ground for bacteria. they say the best way to avoid food poisoning is to eat the greens the day you buy them. with no jackpot winner in the powerball drawing, the grand prize is $325 million tomorrow night's drawing. the last time someone in colorado won the jackpot was in 2014 when a man from rifle claimed a $90 million jackpot. is that paltry. >> powerball jackpot begin about $40 million. >> it's not the wisest retirement plan, but if you hit it right, it's good. we'll warm up this weekend, but it looks like the days of highs near the 80s, you may kiss those good-bye.

could get before another cold snap coming up next in danielle's forecast. >> on this friday evening trump team building, some big picks announced, who they are and what they bring to the table. >> millions under winter advisories will take you to the first blizzard on the season.

welcome back, everyone, meteorologist danielle grab in the 9news backyard. if -- grant in the 9news backyard. if yesterday wasn't a shock to the system, today certainly was. up in the high country we saw so much snowfall, nice to see, steamboat resort picking up about 13 inches at the summit and it looks gorgeous in white. a look ahead to the weekend. yup, it's almost here. we are still going keep that in mind late tonight as temperatures once again cool off to the teens, warmer temperatures on tap this weekend. i'll show you now toasty i think it will get. snowfall will return sooner than later. 34 degrees this afternoon in fort collins, greeley 39. there's 32 at dia with some spots to the west in the 40s in rifle, grand junction and cortez. right now at the airport we have mostly clear skies, temperatures down to about 28

in the 9news backyard it feels pretty good once you have the coat on, the gloves. we're down to 31, but late tonight i anticipate our temperatures to cool off to the teens, about 16 degrees tonight. here in the metro area the winds remain light out of the southwest 5 to 10 miles per hour, down to 9 degrees in greeley, 8 in kremmling and 6 degrees tonight in alamosa. our storm system that came in, gave us our first snowfall of the season here in the metro area is qui picking up on some of that snowfall. meanwhile some severe storms pushing through chicago past st. louis south toward houston into texas. around colorado it's been an extremely quiet day, plenty of sunshine, high pressure in control and will do is over the weekend. there is a little something out in the pacific northwest that will it to our neck of the woods the start of next week.

overnight, a few high level clouds building in across the western slope by tomorrow. 4 p.m. still looking good with all that sunshine. it's late tomorrow evening that we start to see some clouds pushing back in here to the city and out to the west toward grand junction, too. tomorrow temperatures will feel a little more like normal around here, season al in the low 50s with all this sunshine. across the entire state and it's still cold in a couple pockets across northeastern colorado, 40s in ray. we claim to 53 degrees in aspen, upper 50s toward cortez. across the metro area it should be glorious with all this sunshine. you'll hear a lot of melting going on in the backyard. we stay in the mid-40s in grand lake, neared lan and platteville, fort lupton. planning forecast sunday 65 degrees, a nice taste of heat before our next storm system pushes in. now it looks like this one moves into the mountains monday

the metro late monday night. heaviest precipitation pushes in overnight into tuesday morning. daytime highs pretty cool tuesday in the mid-40s, so rain and snow possible. we'll keep our eyes on that one. looking ahead toward the thanksgiving holiday nothing but sunshine and temperatures in the 50s. don't go slightly lower out there on wall street today, declines in

goods makers. the dow was down almost 36 points, s&p 500 down 5 and the

from colorado's sports leader here's rod mackey. >> it's a huge weekend for college football with the final game in hughes stadium and two ranked teams going head to head in boulder and we'll talk about the buffs and rams tomorrow. right now we're giving hockey

the pioneers putting their no. 1 ranking on the line, yeah, no. 1 in the country, which is great in november but only matters in april. >> it's nice and flattering and great for our players to be recognized nationally for their hard work and how hard they're playing, but the most important is for us to keep getting better. >> you're not no. 1 till you win a national championship in april. so that's kind of our mentality and mindset this 1 seed. >> du hockey to du soccer, the pioneers host unlv sunday in the second round of the ncaa tournament and if the game is decided late, we already know who will win at the end. aaron matas shows us why. >> reporter: when time is running short, that is his time. >> i think that big players playing big games and big players playing in moments when the teams need them the most.

he's almost unbelievable. one month ago the pine they'res were in -- pioneers were in double overtime and with eight seconds left -- >> i'm thinking i got to find a way to get my head in this and score. >> reporter: -- two weeks later double o.t. again. >> oh, my gosh, and andre with the game winner! >> reporter: and then just last week in the conference championship game 38 seconds left. >> and goal! >> the championship for the i can help the team, you know, win championships. >> reporter: now he has another opportunity as the pioneers chase a national title. perhaps they should just start games with 30 seconds on the clock. >> just see kind of how it goes out. >> it's probably a good idea, try and see if it works. >> reporter: if sunday's game is close, the pioneers have a secret weapon, but they'd much

seconds left. aaron matas, 9news. >> thank you. we finish with the prep pigskin playoffs, got it right that time, fever a quarterfinals and one player counting -- 5a quarterfinals and one player is counting down the minutes. taylor temby is waiting in the end zone. >> reporter: in frac and field a shot signals go. >> all -- track and field a shot signals go. >> all i can focus on. >> reporter: but in football it's when the ball is released and on the junior victor barnes takes first every time. >> once i break into the opening, i open my ears. i just love hearing the crowd scream. >> reporter: it has become an obsession, colossal plays each game, a 100-yard pick six, a 90- yard kickoff return, a 70-yard punt taken to the end zone. >> with victor i never know what's going to happen, any play. even a play designed for 1 yard breaks into a touchdown. >> reporter: barnes has become

raptors this season no matter what position he plays. >> with the title player i am i expect myself to go above and beyond. i know my coaches expect a lot out of me. >> reporter: he's tried to hit 300 all purpose yards a game which means his other teammates are getting plenty of conditioning, too. >> i'm thinking how much you have to run down and up the field because of him, it's great. >> reporter: eagle crest won its first playoff game in four years last week. victor is ho reason to clap tonight. >> we put an exceptional amount of trust in him. he hasn't let us down. >> reporter: taylor temby, 9news. >> we will have many prep pigskin playoff pictures tomorrow morning on the prep rally. >> you're so proud of how you can do that. >> i didn't want to spray you. >> we appreciate that. that's one way to start the weekend. nbc nightly news is next. after that you'll see a special

breaking news tonight, the president-elect donald trump agrees to pay $25 million to settle lawsuits accusing his trump university of fraud. a stunning reversal on a day we learn major new picks for the trump administration. tonight, battle lines are drawn. blizzard warning, a deadly winter blast sweeping across nearly half a dozen states and more trouble ahe for the holiday rush. hits to the head. surprising news from treating contusions. the new approach parents and kids should hear. foam mystery. a massive blob creeps through streets sending firefighters scrambling, captivating the web. what authorities say it is. and food fights. families bracing to talk turkey and politics at the