line, the two new lines that will not open this year. >> the side effect of rising drug prices and 9wants to know found out drug companies are paying to market their products. >> the man who led the original rise of cu football as this year's team gears up for its first game as part of the top 10 in the country. >> and after the first snow of the season, get ready for a weekend warm-up. 9news starts now. the voters who supported the proposal of marijuana allowed in public places will not be able to smoke in public, after all. anywhere with a liquor license can't allow marijuana skips. the idea to ban marijuana in --

bars. it is illegal to buy and consume marijuana in the same place under the state law. rtd's problems keep piling up and now rtd is admitting its g and r line will not open this year as scheduled. 2016 had been the target for years. the g line will run to arvada and wheat ridge and the r line goes out to aurora. rtd told the business journal it's a series of small slip-ups that have built up and delayed association said it won't allow testing with the g line until problems with rtd's a line, the airport line, is fixed. the issue there and also with the b line, i know, this is alphabet soup, it's the crossings. guards are now stationed at the a line crossings around the clock while that software is not working. earlier this month rtd got a 90 day extension from federal regulators to keep running the a and b lines while they work on those problems. a health study from metro

rocky flags nuclear plant have experienced rare and unusual illnesses. this plant was located 16 miles from north of downtown denver between arvada and superior. for nearly 40 years the plant used plutonium. the survey focused on people living within a 10-mile radius of the plant when it was active from 1952 to 1992. the results seem to corroborate speculation about the potential health effects of living near the nuclear production facility. 840 cases of cancer were the disease. researchers say typically in the u.s. only about a 1/4 of cancer patients are considered rare. a father lost his battle to cardio angiosarcoma. another boy in the neighborhood did as well. >> so the chances of having this rare cancer in one neighborhood, a handful of them, was too coincidental. >> the findings are drawn from

more research need to be done. the survey is ongoing. you can find msu's health survey on 9news.com. what do the u.s. and new zealand have in common? they're the only two countries in the world that allow prescription drug advertising. big pharma spends billions on ads. tonight 9wants to know investigator chris vanderveen shows us the side effects of all that spending. >> i used to have unbridled optimism and then i asked my doctor abou ridufufy. >> reporter: there are a lot of ads on tv for drugs, drugs that can be quite pricey like in the case of embril. >> we could own a condo in the mountains for what we have to take monthly. >> reporter: currently her parents insurance covers most of it, but that hasn't always been the case. >> the out of pocket cost of embril was about $900 a month.

on ads, 1.36 billion for national tv ads in 2013, 1.5 billion in 2014 and 1.86 billion in 20016. that's nearly 5 billion in tv ads. >> if i don't take the shots, i wouldn't be walking. >> reporter: clair wonders if some of that money could be spent on lowering the cost of something like embri. should her mom's insurance change soon, she might be in need of a little help. >> they're just us we don't deserve that, none of my friends with arthritis deserve that. >> reporter: ask your doctor about ridicufy and not even ridicufy can cure that, chris vanderveen, 9news. >> 9wants to know found the pharmaceutical companies spend almost twice as much money on sales, marketing and administrative costs than on research and development, which of course, is their favorite excuse for hiking prices. 9wants to know has been reporting all week on the side effects of skyrocketing drug

on 9news.com/sideeffects. president-elect donald trump selected some of his most prominent supporters for top positions in his administration. he selected former lieutenant general michael flynn as national security advisor, a position that does not require senate approval. veteran alabama senator jeff sessions is trump's choice for attorney general. kansas congressman mike pompeo was selected as cia director and mitt romney is going to discuss the secretary of position. president-elect donald trump agreed to a $25 million settlement for trump university, a victory it was said for the over 6,000 victims. an attorney for the plaintiff said all participants will get at least half their money back, some full refunds. a trial was scheduled november 28th. trump's lawyers say the deal includes no acknowledgment of fault or liability and should allow the president-elect to devote his full attention to the job ahead. polite political

coloradans proved it again tonight on an hour long special edition of next, a town hall version of our let's just talk segments. get to know our neighbors just a little bit. we'll do this by show of hands. who here voted in the presidential election? voters who supported donald trump, hillary clinton and third party candidates gathered to talk honestly and openly about their hopes and fears for america, hopes and fears their neighbors. this matters a lot. so many people are yearning for this kind of discussion. you can watch the entire hour long special posted now on the next with kyle clark facebook page. next airs weeknights on 9news at 6:00. that bright sunshine out there helped melt some snow we received yesterday. spots like dia that got under an inch had more of a melt while other spots like arvada

temperatures are heading towards the teens in denver tonight. we've been below freezing most of the evening so far. meteorologist danielle grant will join us soon with an update for the weekend. [ sirens ] boulder is more fun when the buffs win. pearl street stampede, the band, cheerleaders, players center stage the night before the big ranked buffs take on the no. 22 washington state cougars. if cu wins the next two games, they're headed to the pac-12 title game. tonight folsom field is ready to go for the buffs and cougs. it's an unlikely match-up of division leaders in the pac-12. the past decade these two teams have fewer wins than any other programs from the top five conferences. cu is at the bottom of the list, 35 wins in the previous 10 seasons. the buffs have eight this year.

football is one that sounds remarkably familiar, one involving another coach mac. 34 years ago coach bill mccartney ended his first season 2-8. two years later the team went to a bowl and eventually national championship. our kim christiansen tells us many players say that experience was life changing. >> reporter: young men drawn to the game and evenal another. >> i'm 17 years old. i've been living in southeast iowa. >> i came from a small town in north central missouri. >> i grew up in boulder and so for me it looked very appealing to go elsewhere. >> reporter: all brought together by one man. >> i went to stanford, loved it, thought that would be a great place, went to ufc, mix. those are my final -- michigan,

>> walks in, shakes my hand and said it's nice to meet you. i'm bill mccartney. get lost for two hours i was ordered by him. i left for two hours and came back and my mom said he's the only man i trust that's been in our house. >> he speaks to your soul and he just goes deep and the words that he chooses to use, you could always re coach bill mccartney, they tell the story of a coach. big dreams create the magic that stir men's' souls to greatness. his dreams became their dreams. >> passionate. >> when he's done talking, you're ready to go and run through a wall for him.

10 football team and on thursday you'd think you're going to beat nebraska. >> he made us believe and got the best out of us because we weren't the best athletes in the whole conference. we weren't the best athletes in the country. >> reporter: he needed them to make magic, to win, to fulfill the dream. >> the final score colorado 20. >> pure mac style football all the time full throle was just so caring, but he was also demanding and a great football coach that you never want to let down. >> now deep in the michigan territory, shuffle in the air and it's caught. touchdown colorado! >> we were at practice one day and i punned the ball. it went quite a ways, hit coach mac in the side of the head, knocked him down. i thought i'm going to be in a

would have killed a lesser man. >> reporter: his message, we have not come to compete with one another. we have come to complete one another. together they built a family within a team. >> it's bigger than football. to have coach mccartney be a father figure to us and build a family atmosphere, we love playing football. that's why we're there, but foot compared to our family with the colorado buffs. >> many of us didn't have a father figure like myself. so it was like my dad believing in me. >> he touched young men's lives and he changed their lives. >> reporter: and he never left them. >> graduating from medical school, he would be there and coming to a small town in alabama where i married my wife.

ceremony. >> his legacy is huge, huge across the country no matter where i go. i travel around. people ask me about coach mac. >> reporter: all these years later they've learned what he was building. [ cheering and applause ] >> i just any he was a master -- think he was a master at tricking all of us into thinking that games. he wanted to win. this guy wanted to win, but he could trick you into thinking and what he was really doing was shaping us. >> he was really shaping us to be the men that we are now with families in community and our jobs and professions as fathers, whatever we do.

where he can't take himself. >> he was the epitome of somebody who knew exactly who he was. you didn't have to agree with him, but heed had you to a high standard. >> no. -- he held you to a high standard. >> no. 1 for colorado. >> i wouldn't be the person or father that i am now if i hadn't come and played for coach mccartney. ] singing ] >> and those players meet before home games and often meet with coach mac, too. while they know he is suffering with some dementia, they say that his long term memory is spot on and he's still coaching them in life. it is a bubble emergency, soapy sudsy wall 10 feet high taking over city streets. >> temps back in the teens tonight. we will warm up for the weekend

on the radio, what viewers at 9:00 had to say about kozi's decision to flip the switch this evening. >> we'll get you set to say

estimate it's alive! >> bubbles -- it's alive! it's just bubbles, foam. it's coming out the windows in san jose, california, foam 10 feet high by the time they realized it was firefighting foam accidentally released when there was no fire. >> look at that. the timing of yesterday's storm worked out perfectly for several ski areas finally right after several delays. keystone opened this morning with copper mountain. breck opens tomorrow.

a debate is going on splitting homes right before the holidays. this debate isn't over who won the election. it's over what is on the radio. time for kozi christmas. kozi 101.1 flipped the switch and started playing christmas music at 5:00 today. some people have been calling since the day after halloween asking for it. others wish they'd hold off a little longer. we posed that question on 9news at 9:00 and nearly 2/3 sa right time to start. about 25% say whenever the mood strikes. tis the season around here. it's starting to look more like the holidays with the snowfall coming into the metro area yesterday and now up in the high country they're getting a good dose of this winter weather in time to see a lot of our ski resorts opening up, this great shot across vail, the resorts covered in snowfall. a nice change of pace.

trees awfully frosty. we're keeping a close eye on who is open and will be open in the next week or so. loveland, a-basin, copper still opening. so far 1.7 inches officially at dia. we have a ways to go certainly to hit our average. this is a taste of what's to come. today was cold, 32 degrees, all we could muster at the airport, a little warmer relatively speaking in northern colorado, fort collins and greeley mid- to we hit 44 in lamar and pueblo this afternoon and low 40s across the western slope. look at this. factor in the winds. this is what it feels like outside right now, 5 degrees, 5 whopping degrees in denver, burlington 8 in limon and feels like 9 in gunnison. at the airport temperatures 17, mostly clear skies. in the 9news backyard it's cold, 209 degrees, not quite as frosty downtown.

cold, i anticipate it being the coldest. >> it's of the season -- coldest night of the season. we'll have clear skies and light winds to allow decent radiational cooling that should drop temperatures down to the single digits in kremmling, alamosa. our storm system rolled in and out. it was a fast mover still producing snowfall in minneapolis and rainfall, some severe weather lining up parts of back at home quiet, clear skies an across the midsection of the country. this will be the name of the game the next 24 to 48 hours. look for quiet sunny weather for your weekend. it looks great. if you're thinking but abouting up the holiday lights, now -- about putting up the holiday lights, now is the time. by 4:00 tomorrow evening you'll notice a couple cloud streaming in along i25 and western slope,

it. tomorrow feeling good, seasonal at 52, wind coming at us fife to 10 miles per hour, but that's about it. we're in the mid- to upper 40s for the northeastern corner of the state, still a couple cold pockets up in the high country. it ill with feel and look more like november -- it will feel and look more like november. 52 degrees in denver, littleton, mid-40s in longmont, cool across the red feather lakes area, grand mid-60s, sunshine, feels good out there sunday afternoon, but another storm system is on the way bringing us a few clouds monday, possibility of a rain/snow mix monday night into tuesday, drops off our temperatures to the 40s, but then we warm up in time for the thanksgiving holiday. don't go anywhere.

from colorado's sports leader here's here's rod mackey. >> a csu win over new mexico tomorrow night would be their sixth of the season making them bowl eligible, but that's not the only reason to watch the rams. it will also be their last game ever at hughes stadium, nearly 50 years of football and as aaron matas shows us, nobody had better moments at the old stadium than sonny lubick. [ singing ] >> reporter: their names belong side by side. >> they always used to fight me when they announced my name here sonny lubick field. i always felt uncomfortable with that. >> reporter: sonny lubick field at hughes stadium. >> it's always hard to say good- bye to something. >> reporter: lubick expects saturday to be somewhat somber.

memories. >> reporter: remembering all the victories. nobody won more at hughes than sonny remembering 1993, his first year as head coach. >> i know our first victory was air force. i know here on our stadium 8 to 5, good baseball game. we had two good pitchers on the mound that day. >> reporter: a record crowd came out to watch the rams play utah in 1994. >> touchdown. >> the day was a perfect day and we got the hill and their db picks it off and runs it back for a touchdown. >> reporter: 11 years later sonny's rams beat utah thanks to jesse nading's goal line tackle. >> we finally got our stop on the last play. >> reporter: he can still picture the students on the field as csu came back to beat wyoming in 1994. >> on the way out they tore down that goalpost. >> reporter: two old pals.

realize. coming out here now when there aren't any fans, the band is not around you can see that hughes has served its purpose. >> reporter: his legacy will live on. sonny's name will be carried over to the field at the new on campus stadium. it's a legacy born here at the base of the foothills. >> it all started here at hughes and it won't be forgotten for sure. >> reporter: farewell, old friend. aaron matas, 9ws >> tomorrow night should be fun. aaron, thank you. now no. 12 cu versus 20th ranked washington state is actually saturday's headliner game, but since we talked about the buffs a bunch earlier, we'll now focus on the preps. future buff jake moretti

go to cu. good call. his team won tonight. ryan marquez for six as the top ranked panthers move on double them up 42-21. we'll have many more prep pick skin playoff pictures on the prep rally tomorrow morning. to basketball now the nuggets with a chance to do something tonight they hadn't done all season long. that's win back to back game. denver downed phoenix night. tonight toronto was in town. denver was down over a dozen in the 2nd quarter but came all the way back. emmanuel mudiay right place right time, overtime. it was won by the bad guys. toronto won it with a three, terrence ross bombing away. final score 113-111. nuggets go down and out. we finish on the ice, but we've got du, the top ranked

1 ranking on the line against miami, ohio. the turnover and equalizer, the only goal they got. game officially ends in a tie, but du won the shootout and get the extra conference point. do me a favor tomorrow, can you work for me so i can go to that cu game? >> can you work for us, too? >> you want to come with? >> you're so generous. >> it will just be you, me and

tonight it's freezing. don't worry. the sunshine come out tomorrow. temperatures warm up. the snowfall in your backyard potentially melting soon. about 65 sunday. then we watch the next storm monday night into tuesday.

we've got that turkey and plenty of sunshine, 50s. >> turkey is shaking its tail feathers. hope everybody knows they're wearing the same dress tonight. red team, blue team. tonight show next.